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in reply to: What ya got goin? #55695
Doc Nock wrote: I used to be fearless, but in recent years, things I’m not sure about doing right, I hesitate and if it involves running away I don’t run much anymore!
Let the record show I hired a tree contractor a month ago to take down two very large oaks underneath our utility lines. Gravity is a you-know-what, and electrons move far faster than I can jump out of the way. 😯 😆
in reply to: What ya got goin? #55532dwcphoto wrote: Been nursing a twisted neck i earned chopping a dead locust widow maker. Cut it clean off and it’s still hing up in a big maple.
I feel your pain. Well, at least I dodged some pain by dropping a large dead oak that hung ominously above my archery range, at an angle suggesting imminent injury or worse to your correspondent.
Didn’t cut the first notch deep enough, for fear of working too much under the lean, and the #$%^!@# rewarded me by hanging up on its stump at about a fifty degree angle from horizontal, partially supported by another tree. Finally got it down but it took far more of an afternoon than I intended or wished.
donthomas wrote: Go get ’em, eld. I’ve never figured out how a digital device on your wrist is supposed to help you get up the mountain. Don
And even more importantly, build knee and ankle joints for the trip back down, something many a runner has discovered to his or her dismay.
in reply to: I think I have a record here… #54318Spikebuck wrote: 18 is a lot for sure.
Several years ago a friend and I were out stump shooting and walked through a brushy area. I don’t know how many ticks we had on us when we exited because they were beyond counting. We literally “brushed” them off our clothes in droves. 😯 Dozens each, I’m sure. We had to basically undress right there and turn pants and shirts inside out and they were everywhere. I’ve never experienced anything like that time.
As a kid I remember occasionally getting a tick. Maybe even two in a whole day in the woods. The big “dog” ticks. Now I’m constantly aware and checking as picking up a dozen or more little deer ticks is nothing anymore, especially in the spring.
Spikebuck, my mom grew up in Embarrass during the Depression era. She said that they never had ticks in the woods when she was a kid, and they only showed up after cattle were imported into MN from TX.
Some good stuff in this article from the Northern Woodlands organization:
in reply to: I think I have a record here… #53616Twenty-eight, several years ago. The price you pay as a SAR dog handler while hiding for someone else’s dog during training, in head-high grass in deer habitat.
The experience induced me to compose the following as I reflected on it and similar ones:
Dog Handler’s Lament
Tick tock, tick tock.
Is that a tick crawling up my leg?
Tick tock, tick tock.
Flick the light.
Grab the tick.
Drown the tick.
Back to bed.
Tick tock, tick tock.
Is that a tick crawling up my leg?
(By the way, during that same outing, I had a deer run straight across my chest, striking my arm once, as the dog approached my location …)
in reply to: Turkey Tips – Backcountry College #49903Excellent idea! Thanks.
in reply to: Turkey Tips – Backcountry College #49252You’re doing it wrong, Clay. You’re supposed to put the arrow under the bird, not over it:
Nineteen days and counting …
in reply to: Signs of Spring #44396dfudala wrote: Hey SH, I’m not sure how feasible this would be for you guys, the logistics may be a bit extensive but I’ve hunted bear and deer in the boundary waters canoe wilderness for some years now. If you’re interested in a true wilderness waterways hunt maybe we should consider a group hunt up that way some day? Tags for bear and deer are easily obtained and the seasons overlap in September. Could be just what yer lookin for?
Uh oh. I was thinking of the very same thing. I see the risk of some marital discord on the horizon …
Ely or Grand Marais? Or do you have some secret Isabella stash?
“Have Penobscot 17, will portage for venison.” Or at least a whack at seeing one or two portages again.
in reply to: Signs of Spring #43183Doc Nock wrote: Got just the thing for you and your Yak…
Get one of those kids tupper ware snow sleds, rivet those foam pontoons on the sides all way around, and tow it behind you… deer fit in one nicely and you can put an inner tube bladder inside the chest cavity, strap it fast and have additional floatation if something went awry!
You’re Welcome…N/C! 😆
Gag me with a Sportspal – the sale of which product also stains my ethical record as an advocate of paddling …
(That’s actually not a bad idea at all that you have there – thanks!)
in reply to: Signs of Spring #43094Doc Nock wrote: Eids,
Good heavens! I had to Google Pungo boats… that is a bizarre clip you posted.
So, you built a hand-made, wooden Kayak? Are you suggesting you would be willing to take Grumpy’s place in my will line-up?
:roll::lol:
(Mom, I’ve thought often about using one of the kayaks here to go hunting, as recently as this week. 😉 )
Yes, I built a thirteen-footer for my wife from a Chesapeake Light Craft kit and rehabbed a used seventeen-footer from them for myself.
Here’s the thirteen-footer on the water. It has a large cockpit and would be ideal for getting into spots away from the madd(en)ing crowd. For deer hunting I would use my Royalex ( 😯 ) canoe, though, because the kayak lacks capacity for that task. Well, actually, the kayak would be fine considering my record at hunting deer …
in reply to: Signs of Spring #4300034 degrees, two inches of new snow on the ground here in NH, and I’m about to go scout for turkeys on my skis. I put off oiling up the wooden kayak paddle I made a few years back for the wooden kayak I use, Doc.
Charlie – who will certainly be punished in the afterlife for the hundreds of Pungos he sold over the years:
in reply to: Signs of Spring #39148First pair of Great Blue Herons flew by yesterday on their way to Maine. It will be a while for peepers – I was skiing on Friday and I’ll probably go at least one more time this week if feasible.
Turkey season starts four weeks from yesterday. 😀
in reply to: Anyone Experimented with EAOC? #34678Webmother wrote: 8) Don’t make me regret this…
The video can stand for now, but it cannot start a “discussion” of political views, no matter how civil.
Much appreciated!
I shot my bow yesterday and thought today about how it went. 😉
in reply to: Anyone Experimented with EAOC? #34460For the benefit of those who missed it the first time it appeared on the world stage (and with a fervent hope that our Webmom lets this stay), herewith presented for your edification and amusement, the etymological provenance of the phrase:
in reply to: Traditional Snowshoes for Hunting #33539colmike wrote:
On a personal note–in the early 80’s when I was doing a security recon of the AK pipeline in one village we stopped in an elder had snowshoes of wood, aluminum, and whale bone hanging outside his home–I asked which are best–he pointed at the dog team we were driving-then pointed out back at his snow machine and said–that good for short runs–your team good for living–snowshoes good for walk to dance.:roll:
But Joe–I wouldn’t recommend a dog team to anyone that doesn’t enjoy lots of work.:lol:
Ek’s Laws of Nivean Locomotion:
1. Never walk when you can snowshoe.
2. Never snowshoe when you can ski.
3. Never carry something when you can drag it.
4. Never drag something when you can get a dog to do that.
5. Never rely on a snowmobile or helicopter to get you back out the same day.
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